“Being stylish and being fashionable are two entirely different things. You can easily buy your way into being fashionable. Style, I think is in your DNA. It implies originality and courage.”
Unknown, Dyer's textile pattern book
mid 19th century
Part of RISD Museum (Rhode Island School of Design)
Woodcut on paper; Cotton plain weave, resist printed
30.8 x 23.5 x 2.5 cm (12 1/8 x 9 1/4 x 1 inches)
I don't tend to use a lot of orange or yellow unless they're part of a colour wheel, but wanted something fire-inspired for this. It's another big one, about 43cm (17") across. Blackwork embroidery on 14-count Aida cloth.
The Storer House by Frank Lloyd Wright. Designed as an organic extension of its rugged environment, Wright's Storer house - second of the textile-block houses - rises on a series of terraces set into a Hollywood hillside, its cement blocks mixed with decomposed granite from the site itself.
The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995